The Muller family, Farm Creek Show Steers, Warwick, exhibited the reserve steer in the schools section, with the 566kg Murray Grey named Silver Spur. The reserve open steer was Goose exhibited by Luke and Emily Kahler, Glamorgan Vale,who earlier won the over 600 kg class. There was eight head more than last year’s 91 entries. […]
Mining and agriculture icon Gina Rinehart has stepped up her support for rural Australia. Click to check the original article.
“And I think it’s unfortunate that in agriculture, particularly broadscale agriculture, we’re a bit hesitant to promote the fact that some individual businesses make a lot of money.” Click to check the original article.
Esperance’s natural gas has been switched off, drastically increasing the time it takes Neil Wandel to clean and dry grain. Click to check the original article.
Agri-Science Queensland executive director Wayne Hall was the government spokesman for the announcement, noting benefits for tourism, market gardening, expansion of sheep, cattle and goat production, hay production, and availability of the campus for the re-establishment of a rural training facility. Click to check the original article.
The 93rd Berridale Merino ewe competition proves its value in lifting flock standards Click to check the original article.
Unprecedented prize money of more than $18,000 worth of cash and goods was on offer, generating huge excitement around the event. Click to check the original article.
The top end of the weaner steer run made to around $1200 and $1300 a head. Click to check the original article.
This is not another story about the cheaper cattle market. Click to check the original article.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced this week that a federal judge has granted a permanent injunction against Cody Easterday and is requiring him to pay a $1 million civil monetary penalty in connection with a phantom cattle fraud scheme. In a parallel criminal action, Easterday previously was sentenced to 11 years in prison […]
These statistics reflect the lived realities of women, women who, after a lifetime of productively contributing to their communities, have been squeezed out of the housing market across metropolitan, rural, and regional areas and forced into housing insecurity. Click to check the original article.
Markets, of course, have been watching the dry weather we have experienced over April and May and have been reacting accordingly. It’s got to be said, however, that it hasn’t been the dryness per se that’s seen basis firm, but more the resultant selling behaviour by growers. Click to check the original article.